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- Mar. 19, 1990: Settled:Veronica Prego
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- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Mar. 19, 1990 The Right To Die
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- <source>Time Magazine</source>
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- MILESTONES, Page 82
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- <p> SETTLED. A $175 million negligence lawsuit by Dr. Veronica
- Prego, 32; against New York City; after she contracted AIDS;
- for $1.35 million. Prego claimed that she developed the disease
- after accidentally piercing her finger in 1983 with a syringe
- needle used to draw blood from an AIDS patient at a Brooklyn
- hospital that she contended lacked proper procedures for
- disposal of needles.
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- </body>
- </article>
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